<VV> snow cars

[shortle]

My '63 Rampside w/ 4 studded snow tires seems to be able to go anywhere here in southwest Colorado during those wintery months.
Timothy Shortle in (snowy) Durango Colorado

-----Original Message-----
>From: Tony Underwood <tony.underwood at cox.net>
>Sent: Aug 9, 2009 9:44 AM
>To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
>Subject: Re: <VV> snow cars
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>At 02:26 PM 8/8/2009, Sethracer at aol.com wrote:
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>>In a message dated 8/8/2009 8:34:28 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
>>lechevrier at earthlink.net writes:
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>> >I've had Corvairs with studded snows at all four  corners. Definitely a
>>GREAT snow car! But then I got my first Subaru ...
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>>I have waited and waited for an explanation - What is this "snow" of which
>>you all speak?  Is it some kind of white substance that accumulates on the
>>road? Or is that something else I've heard called "salt"?
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>>Seth  Emerson  - Waiting patiently in sunny  but shaky, California
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>'Tis that which falls from above in times of the shortest days of the 
>months in the valleys of the commonwealth which took its name from 
>the English queen who could not get laid.    Although those with 
>great authority and equally great ignorance feel that such events as 
>the precipitation of this white substance should come to an end 
>because of their claims that the world warms uncontrollably, the 
>substance continues to blanket our beloved commonwealth on a regular 
>basis during those shortened days thus causing grief to those who 
>drive not the 4WD or products of Willow Run in its days of glory.
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>Should our beloved commonwealth ever suspect that salt, rather than 
>current chemical mysteries, would be best to combat the white glove 
>which embraces the land in cold months, I shall become a vigilante 
>and do my very best to infest their underwear with the larva of 
>snails and slugs, so as to give these cretins cause to reflect upon 
>another best usage of the salt they would otherwise spread far and 
>wide, which in this one's humble opinion is geared towards dissolving 
>our vintage chariots thus steering the common man into dealerships so 
>as to deplete his wallet further, while also raising the attention to 
>the conundrum of where the common man should go to purchase a new 
>chariot once his old one returns to the earth in oxide form... once 
>the mighty one in DC closes all the dealerships.
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>I drive my vintage steed not, in winter months when the white blanked 
>comes, for fear of the response to the possible results of the sodium 
>chloride plague considered by those who know not what they do.
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>tony..
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